Donny Smutz is an up-and-coming surrealist artist who recently joined an exclusive representation agreement with Tinney Contemporary. Smutz, who lives in Nashville, has already had solo shows in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Pittsburgh. Smutz's artwork is known for courting controversy. At 2008 exhibition in Nashville, a painting of his was slashed with a box-cutter by someone who thought his work was blasphemous (the painting depicted Catholic nuns in a compromising position). *See footage